Nothing seems to work I tried to
go to the Properties > Permission set both Owner and Group Access to Read & Write and after that it displays an error on each single file that is locked and says "Error setting permissions: Read-only file system.".
(the Owner was already Read and Write but all files are still read only)
Also i tried to remount but with read and write permission using the terminal
sudo mount -o uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g),rw /dev/sdb1 /media/my name/my usb
What filesystem is the USB formatted to?
What is on the USB Stick? You could open ''Disks'' and try it there.
I would bet the USB is formatted for windows (most are when you buy them). There seems to be a problem with permissions when that happens (owner is root and even going into the terminal as root you can't seem to change the permissions which are read only for files etc). I couldn't get chown to work either. What I did with mine was to make a copy of the data on another drive than reformat the original drive as ext4 then copy the data back. With ext4 format you can go into Disks and claim ownership. The only problem is that you probably won't be able to access the data from windows any more. If that's a problem for you there are ways of mirroring the content, for example I use spideroak as my cloud back up and I can synch two folders on different drives and I'm sure there are a lot of other ways of doing the same type of thing.
Its FAT32
IT is FAT32, that is okay. And it doesn't have more than one Partition, okay too.
Do You know what Data are on it? When You click on the Gears Icon, what Options do You have?
''Take Ownership'' is greyed out, okay ... You could use the Option ''Repair Filesystem to see if there maybe any damaged Files.
If there are no important Files on the Stick what You need and it can be deleted, You could use the Option ''Format Partition'' to delete the Stick and reformat it.
I've used the Format Partition, I can do what ever i want with the usb now. Thanks
